Digital Media and Communications Department | 4 CPCC - Career Pathway Certificate of Completion | 6 months

You will develop some exciting new skills in this program. Among these new skills, you should be able to:

• Demonstrate video production skills and knowledge in broadcast journalism
• Generate newsworthy story ideas, write copy and take photographs
• Create an audio news story and design and maintain a working news website

Careers

Career opportunities include:

• radio
• television stations
• motion picture industry
• advertising
• promotions

Job Market

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PROGRAM CODE: CC.ELVLJRNLST

The Entry Level Journalist certificate prepares students for entry level positions in the field of digital media and journalism. Students attain knowledge and learn skills to seek careers in creative and support professions related to digital media and broadcast journalism, such as visual and audio editing, digital media production, post production, weblog and podcast writing and production, broadcast reporting and electronic news gathering. 

PROGRAM OUTCOMES

Upon successful completion of this program, students should be able to:

• display preparedness for an entry-level position in the field of journalism by orchestrating multiple news teams, generating newsworthy story ideas, and checking content for problem with libel and newsworthiness;
• demonstrate video production skills and understanding in broadcast journalism by managing a news crew to follow up and record video news stories, editing video news stories, compressing video into needed formats, uploading and updating video news stories onto an internet server;
• demonstrate skills and understanding in journalism by writing news stories and taking photographs for publication in the weekly newspaper, working with a peer group toward a common goal, conducting interviews in a professional manner, synthesizing Information gathered from sources to put together news articles, writing photo captions with no errors, researching, collecting and evaluating information for use in news stories, practicing ethical journalism in gathering information, and processing advertising contracts;
• demonstrate skills and understanding in digital video editing which include logging and capturing raw video, cutting video sequences into individual shots, assembling shots into cohesive and meaningful order within a timeline, generating text to place into video, adjusting audio levels and apply audio transitions and color correction, discuss the historical cultural impact of the language of film and how that impacts present-day editing decisions, apply established editing techniques and style to a creative video editing project using Premiere Pro, create a digital slide show, produce an audio news story, design and maintain a working news website.